Run Mac OS X on Windows 10 Using VMware Posted on March 30, 2016 by Computer Niagara I’ve never been a Mac fan, but I do have to say that our family does have several Apple products in our home, 2 iPads and an iPhone for the kids and my wife.
Click to expand.it is completely legal to make a hackintosh. The only thing that would be illegal would be to make hackintoshes and sell them with OS X loaded on it without Apple's permission. Building a hackintosh is totally legal though. Apple truly doesn't care at all. It's a necessity for people like me who want a powerful GPU, lots of RAM, and don't want to have to sell my kidney to afford it. And it's absolutely amazing to have a hackintosh as a development machine. I have three super-fast SSD's in my hackintosh, one has OS X, one has Ubuntu, and the other has Windows 10.
It's amazing being able to develop in all three environments on the same machine.it is completely legal to make a hackintosh. The only thing that would be illegal would be to make hackintoshes and sell them with OS X loaded on it without Apple's permission. Building a hackintosh is totally legal though.
Apple truly doesn't care at all. It's a necessity for people like me who want a powerful GPU, lots of RAM, and don't want to have to sell my kidney to afford it. And it's absolutely amazing to have a hackintosh as a development machine.
I have three super-fast SSD's in my hackintosh, one has OS X, one has Ubuntu, and the other has Windows 10. It's amazing being able to develop in all three environments on the same machine.
Click to expand.Legal? Regarding running mac on non-Apple hardware, that has already been covered. But you have to obtain a legitimate copy of OS X from the app store (so find someone you know with a mac to download it). As easy as it might be, DO NOT download a copy from online since that is piracy which is illegal. Also I'll add that xcode runs pretty darn well in VMware/OSX (i7 4790k, 8GB RAM, SSD), my only complaint is that it doesn't use any GPU drivers so graphical performance is terrible. Things like program UIs and safari run fine, but the iOS simulator in xcode doesn't work at all. That means you need the xcode 7 beta (since deployment to a device is now free in xcode 7) to test and debug the app.
Also I think you need a genuine mac to upload apps to the app store, but I could be mistaken. Click to expand.When using VMWare Fusion, it will allow one to easily spin up an OS X VM on a Mac, but if one attempts to move the virtual machine to ESXi or VMWare Workstation, the VM will not make it past EFI boot, and wind up with a circle with a slash through it.
I'm sure there are ways around this. I would consider the hackintosh route as well if I had to go this route. If you try to run OS X in a VM, get a SSD at the minimum (so the operating systems don't have to fight each other for the drive head), and have at least 8 gigs of RAM, so you have headroom for the base OS as well as OS X.